Re: HOWTO: Active Directory Authentication

The following steps were tested on Ubuntu 9.10.

The easiest way to do this is to install Likewise-Open and Likewise-Open-GUI from the repository:

sudo apt-get install likewise-open likewise-open-gui

After installation is complete, go to System>>Administration>>Active Directory membership to join the Ubuntu computer to the AD domain. You'll have to restart, then you can log on using your AD user account and credentials. The user account is in the form domain\username, for example, soundtraining\doncrawley.

Here's a link to a YouTube video demonstrating how to do it, except that he downloads the packages from their site. You can just use apt-get or aptitude to install it directly from the Ubuntu repository.